How can a human being anywhere think that killing a child is somehow better then trying to help the child live?
If you have a system where it is better to kill then to take someone to the hospital, the system is broken and needs change.
But I don’t think it’s a “chinese” problem, as much as it is a humankind problem. The truth is many people like to think they are good people, but when someone needs help they will just walk away.
In this case I can only wish my condolences and hope the child did not feel much pain.
the little girl story was appalling because everyone just ignored her. but this was just a hit and run and re-run. that happens all the time in the USA.
I dont think China sucks. The threads I post that happen to be about China are coincidential. The story about the Chinese girl was all over the news, and this story is about to go viral.
long story short, two year old girl wonders away from mother. Gets hit by a moving cargo truck. 18 passing bystanders ignore the girl. Another truck runs over girl legs. Little girl gets saved by garbage lady. Mother finally finds her. Girl dies a week later in hospital. My heart is broken.
They’re only “just different” as long as they’re some giant sweatshop that no-one cares about. When they get to become a genuine military superpower, the value that Chinese people put on life could become quite problematic. They might start killing people who aren’t Chinese.
Makes sense, Yoh!, given all the other egregious (if only to outside eyes) censorship that goes on in China. However, I highly doubt it being in public would change much even without the government cracking down–it hasn’t changed shit in America in most instances.
Oh, I vaguely remember that. I honestly don’t remember posting there, though.
oh, so i didnt post the thread about the chinese girl (… and i actually thought i did)… yet i’m the one who gets blamed for posting threads on everything thats wrong with China.:bluu:
This is why health care needs to not be “for profit.” When human life has a cash value its just screwed up. This story is coming to the US pretty soon if not already. When most of the population can’t afford healthcare, families will be forced to let their loved ones die.
It’s absolutely nowhere near being able to match the US in terms of power projection; it could probably mount a pretty good defensive war, but it can’t go around invading willy-nilly. If it could, Taiwan wouldn’t be independent.
People tend to say “oooh, look at how many troops they have!”. If you’re behind in terms of tactics, training or technology (or even just the first two), the only benefit of large troop numbers is that your enemy might run out of bullets. Just ask the various Arab countries that have tried to zerg rush Israel.
(Not sure why The Answers posted the exact same thing twice, but meh.)
Oh, that’s what you meant. I thought as much, but I wasn’t sure considering, you know, nuclear capability and everything.
I had to look it up again since apparently it bled out of my browser history the despite the fact that I only looked it up at the beginning of this month. It’s supposedly a “true” one from Encyclopedia Dramatica’s “Awesome Creepypasta” section.
Across the Border
[details=Spoiler]There was a couple from Texas who was planning a weekend trip across the Mexican border for a shopping spree. At the last minute, their baby-sitter canceled, so they had to bring along their two year old son with them. They had been across the border for an hour when the boy got free and ran around the corner. The mother tried to find him, but he was missing. The mother found a police officer who told her to go to the gate and wait. Not really understanding the instructions, she did as she was told.
About 45 minutes later, a Mexican man approached the border, carrying the boy. The mother ran to him, grateful that he had been found. When the man realized it was the boy’s mother, he dropped him and ran. The police were waiting for him. The boy was dead, and in the 45 minutes he was missing, he had been cut open, all of his organs removed, and stuffed with bags of cocaine. The man was going to carry him across the border as if he were asleep.[/details]
For the record, that seemed the most likely to be true IMO.
Stories like this surprise me, because while I am not well versed in Chinese culture… I have read one of their classics, the San Guo Yan Yi or as you probably know it, “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” In it, the concept of ‘filial piety’, e.g. loyalty to one’s family, is repeatedly shown as a virtue a hero should have. To go from showing a hero being so hardcore about this that he ate his eye rather than disposing of it after it was destroyed by an arrow that hit him in the face (“essence of my father and mother, I cannot throw this away!” or words to that effect), to this… is jarring.
I can’t offer any deep insight on this, and am just as confused as most of you are. What kind of screwed up conditions do there have to be to lead to a society where this is considered prudent, and death is seen as a matter of compensation to argue over? I don’t know, and part of me almost doesn’t want to know… the only value in finding out what lies behind this would be to keep up one’s guard against it happening in other societies.
That’s pretty F’ed up. Is China getting a little batty now?